When I first heard this, I could not beleive It....

Right after the Election, I saw a post on DU about how GOP Leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell Refused to Accept President Obama's Election Night Call.... My first response was, this can't be true, nobody would do that to a standing President... Then I asked and several people confirmed that several stations reported it... It was even discussed this morning. On Melissa Harris-Perry show.... (link to the original New York Times Story is below)

1. I don't really care about the token symbolic shit.

Maybe it was childish for them not to pick up the phone. But seriously, it wasn't a call they needed to take in the middle of the night - this wasn't a crisis, and the president doesn't needed to be treated with royalty. If I'd gotten a call from dubya when he was president at 3am, I wouldn't have answered it.

I wish the media would focus on the real issues - like legislation those two guys are obstructing. That's the real problem.

6. remember Mcconnell: 'my most important goal is to make sure Obama is not relected'?

that was one of the most powerful parts of the narative that, from the very beggining, the GOP refused to cooporate...

this is the same friggin thing..

and frankly, I would take a call from the president no matter who he was, if I was an elected official ITS THEIR JOB!!! If they had any respect for President Obama, they would have taken the call - period

14. nyt article said right after speech

21. The flip side is also true

If you're going to call at an hour when most people are sleeping, you need to not abuse that for something that can wait until morning - if the expectation is that they NEED to pick up the phone at whatever hour you call.

But still - the bigger issue is what the media decides to focus on as important.

18. not everything is 'symbolic' when we use that word it sometimes waters down the action...

let's just look at the action - it was indicative of a seriously fucked up group of people and how they conduct themselves... our government is fucked up they way it is because we have to deal with this shit

5. Actually nat taking the call might have been a good thing

Maybe they were so pissed and apoplectic that they would have said something really really regrettable. We all know what incredibly sore losers they are. They needed time to get control of themselves. But you're right, it really reflects very poorly on them.

8. Thiere's always a double standard for them.

Imagine if Bill Clinton had refused a call from GWB. . . There would have been hell to pay.

Same thing with other repuke figures. Remember Barbara Bush calling Geraldine Ferraro a bitch? Imagine if the shoe had been on the other foot.

All in all, I don't care that Quadruple-Chin McConnell and Boner didn't take the POTUS's call. . . . I imagine they were either drunk and crying in their cups or passed out after drowning their sorrows. I hope they had a terrific hangover in the morning. What I DO know is those 2 fuckers DID wake up on Wednesday morning with the full knowledge that B.O. kicked Shit Romney's ASS, and THAT is what counts!

24. I shared this with a Republican friend who doubts Obama will "cooperate."

I find their actions incredibly disrespectful. If the tables were turned, if Romney had been elected and called Reid and Pelosi and they'd not taken his calls it would be big news.

His FIRST act, basically, was to reach out and they shunned him. Doesn't matter the time of night. Of course they were up watching the election. Regardless, it was a gesture of good will and they snubbed it.

He is the POTUS. They should take his calls. It was not an abuse of his right to call about important events. If they wanted to show that they, too, were willing to work together they'd have spoken with him.